The Best American Comics 2007
10 best books like The Best American Comics 2007 (Chris Ware): Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Libra, How To Be Happy, Drinking at the Movies, Over Easy, Twentieth Century Eightball, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1608198065 |
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative...
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0140156046 |
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997408 |
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0307591832 |
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over...
| Author | Mimi Pond |
| ISBN | 1770461531 |
A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s.
Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the...
Twentieth Century Eightball
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974362 |
Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous...
| Author | Justin Hall |
| ISBN | 1606995065 |
Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300111703 |
Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a “modern” sensibility. As with Chris Ware’s selections for his best-selling McSweeney’s anthology,...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300126719 |
Ivan Brunetti returns with a new selection of 20th and 21st-century comic creations by some of the most original artists in the medium
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan...
| Author | Anne Ishii |
| ISBN | 1606997858 |
Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay...
A wry daily comics journal of urban ennui
Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy narration, and biting wit chronicle...
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1620403218 |
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan.
A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, Roz Chast has always...
| Author | Kevin Huizenga |
| ISBN | 1770460616 |
Formally innovative explorations bring poetry to the quotidian
In Gloriana, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of the mundane interactions...
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770462872 |
Jenny, post-breakup, becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser,...
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
| Author | Ben Passmore |
| ISBN | 1945509201 |
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about...
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become...
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A sort of increasingly dark story that begins with a girl reading comics being mildly bullied in school. She meets her sweet Dad who takes her for ice cream and to a comic...
